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Stories in Music: Descent Into Night

Sunday, November 04, 2012

Kim Nowacki

Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center
(Mark Bussell)

Music’s ability to tell stories and paint pictures, with few or no words, is truly an asset that the art form possesses all to itself. This week's program features three richly evocative works from the 20 century by Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel and Arnold Schoenberg.